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In the current economic environment, the number of high profile organisations experiencing solvency issues are growing. Corporate collapse is always a risk. As demonstrated in recent high-profile administrations, the effects are often multi-jurisdictional and long lasting. To survive an insolvency, organisations require experienced, responsive and solution-oriented advisers.
Minter Ellison's insolvency and reconstruction team is consistently recognised by independent, international surveys (including 'top tier' Asia Pacific Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer? and IFLR 1000: Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms) as among the leading practices in Australia. Chambers Global 2008 notes that ' [Minter Ellison] always look at the practical realities when giving their advice' with client's noting our 'efficient' and commercial service. Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2006) noted our team as 'impressive'. IFLR 1000 noted that our peers and clients alike recognise us as 'unmatched when it comes to client servicing'.
Our team of more than 60 insolvency specialists includes experienced commercial litigators who regularly act in complex or multi-jurisdictional insolvencies. We work with liquidators, administrators, receivers, banks and other lenders and have been involved in many of the region's major insolvencies and corporate collapses including Opes Prime, Centro Property Group, Ansett Australia, One.Tel, Centaur Mining, Western Metals, Sons of Gwalia, Absolute Capital, Green Pacific Energy, Pasminco, Ion and the Westpoint collapse.
A distinguishing feature of our insolvency practice is our international network of offices and relationships, enabling us to work in real time across borders, with experts on the ground in each of our offices across the Asia Pacific. This breadth allows our lawyers to act swiftly, with quick access to courts for injunctions, to preserve assets and to challenge voidable transactions. Our lawyers are members of INSOL and work collaboratively with advisers in other jurisdictions and understand the ways in which insolvency laws can collide. We are able to assemble teams to service clients with a 'whole-of-matter' approach from start to finish (including advice in relation to employment, tax, insurance, dispute resolution, corporate governance, finance and equity, environment, commercial, M&A, property and capital markets).
Our insolvency and reconstruction expertise includes:
- corporate reconstruction and workouts
- receivership
- liquidation
- voluntary administration
- schemes of arrangement
- credit recovery
- securities enforcement
- corporate fraud investigation
- banking and finance.
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